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Revenue & Disaster Management Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy said extortion of lives and spot is the government’s foremost precedence arsenic the monsoon gets active, adjacent arsenic helium called for continuous monitoring of susceptible locations and speedy effect mechanisms to woody with emergencies arising from dense rain.
Reviewing the preparedness of territory administrations and catastrophe absorption agencies connected Monday, the Minister directed officials crossed the State to stay connected precocious alert and instrumentality precautionary measures successful presumption of forecasts of wide rainfall from June 19.
He stressed that preventing the interaction of earthy calamities done timely enactment is acold much effectual than responding aft disasters occur. He instructed officials successful each districts to stay vigilant passim the play and guarantee that capable arrangements are successful spot to forestall immoderate inconvenience to the public.
The Minister said that the southbound westbound monsoon entered confederate Telangana connected June 8 and initially covered Jogulamba Gadwal district. At present, the monsoon bound extends done Hyderabad and Bhadradri Kothagudem districts towards the bluish parts of the State. By June 14, monsoon covered each districts of southbound Telangana and astir districts of cardinal Telangana.
Despite the advancement of the monsoon, Telangana has recorded a rainfall shortage truthful acold this season. Between June 1 and June 14, the State received 49.2 mm of rainfall against the mean mean of 54.9 mm, reflecting a shortfall of astir 10%.
